Ship&#39;s buffer.



J. ONTKO, JR.

SHIPS' BUFFER. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 17,1914.

Patented May 5, 1914.

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JOHN ONTKO, JR., 0F SMITHFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIPS BUFFER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17,1914. Serial No. 812,704.

T 0 all whom it may cancer n 4 Be it known that I, JOHN ()N'rno, Jr., a sub ect of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary,

residing at Smithfield, in the county of Fa-- yette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ships Buffers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in ships buffers,

An object of the invention is to provide means at both sides, at the bow and at the stern of a boat or vessel, which will cushion the boat or vessel and. protect same from injury by contacting with objects.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the accbmpanying drawings, and will be described in detail, it being understood of course, that in the practice of the invention, various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

In the drawings zfFigure 1 is a top plan view of a boat equipped with my improved buffer. Fig. 9. is a side elevation of the same, and, Fig.3 is a transverse vertical sectional view on an enlarged scale and partly broken away. I

In the illustrated embodiment of my invention, 5 designates the boat. At both sides, and at the front and rear of the boat, are arranged buffer plates spaced from and resiliently held away from the sides of the boat. These are preferably located at a point where they will be substantially on the water line, so as to be positioned at a point where any object would be liableto injure the boat by contact therewith.

The front buffer plate 6 is substantially- V-shaped in form, the rear ends of same overlapping the forward ends of the side buffer plates 7 the rear ends of said buffer plates 7 overlapping the endsof the rear bufler'plate 8, which latter is substantially segment form. Between said buffer plates and the outerface of the vessel hullare springs 9, suitably fastened as at 10 at their ends to the vessel hull and the bufi'er plates respectively. These springs serve to hold the buffer plates spaced away from theouter face or wall of the vessel, and also, serve to return the bufi'er plates to normal position after same have been forced inwardly by contact with an object. I

The buffer plates are suspended from the top or deck of the vessel hull b chains 11,

and they are also tied ,-Jjtt their ower edges by chains 12 to the l itiel or bottom of the boat. This serves to securely hold the buffer plates in the normal position and in a plane parallel with the outer face or wall of the .upper portion of the boat hull, as shown by Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings.

Obviously, any injury to any one of the bulfer plates can be repaired or a new bu-fi'er plate substituted without interfering with or necessitating the removal of any of the other buifer plates, Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new is Patented May 5, 1914.

In a device of the character described, the

combination? witha. vessel, of independent bufi'er plates for the opiposite sides, the bow and the stern of sai chains connected to said plates-and tothe 'deck of the vessel, securing chains connecting the lower edges of said plates to the bottom of the vessel, and springs arranged between said plates and the outer wall of the vessel for holding the plates spaced with relation to said wall.

In testimony whereof I aiilxmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

' 7 JOHN ONTKO, JR. Witnesses:

PETE-R VAsiL, HENLY Dnnnnns.

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